Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Believe Quotes, Eye Quotes

I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

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Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.

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For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.

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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?

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I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

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May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

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We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.

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Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

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There is no virtue if there is no immortality.

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To cook your hare you must first catch it.

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"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

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That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

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Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

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When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

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The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

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Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk.

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From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse.

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I want to suffer so that I may love.

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It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him with contempt. And then suddenly a moment would arrive when some uncontrollable impulse would lay his soul bare, and you would behold in it such riches, such sensitivity and warmth, such a vivid awareness of its own suffering and the suffering of others, that the scales would fall from your eyes and at first you would hardly be able to believe what you had seen and heard. The reverse also happens.

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Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen.

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